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<p>[QUOTE="Pellinore, post: 5410634, member: 74834"]Here's <a href="https://spectator.sme.sk/c/22093970/boars-dug-out-a-treasure-of-coins-from-the-turn-of-15th-and-16th-century.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://spectator.sme.sk/c/22093970/boars-dug-out-a-treasure-of-coins-from-the-turn-of-15th-and-16th-century.html" rel="nofollow">another hoard</a>, from Slovakia, buried at the same time. Silver and a little gold - but no Roman coins alas. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_coin_collectors" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_coin_collectors" rel="nofollow">According to this list</a>, the Emperor Augustus was a coin collector, Suetonius mentions some details. And <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_coin_collectors" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_coin_collectors" rel="nofollow">here someone</a> speculatively described the discovery of a numismatist's collection dating from about 200 AD. </p><p><br /></p><p>I'm sure, had I been living in, say, Tarsus in the third century, I surely had been a natural born coin collector hoarding coins and tessera from Tarsus and all the neigboring Roman Provincial towns, the large and the small, trying to make a series of all the emperors and empresses, all the festivals and games, and all the gods and goddesses and personifications.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Pellinore, post: 5410634, member: 74834"]Here's [URL='https://spectator.sme.sk/c/22093970/boars-dug-out-a-treasure-of-coins-from-the-turn-of-15th-and-16th-century.html']another hoard[/URL], from Slovakia, buried at the same time. Silver and a little gold - but no Roman coins alas. [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_coin_collectors']According to this list[/URL], the Emperor Augustus was a coin collector, Suetonius mentions some details. And [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_coin_collectors']here someone[/URL] speculatively described the discovery of a numismatist's collection dating from about 200 AD. I'm sure, had I been living in, say, Tarsus in the third century, I surely had been a natural born coin collector hoarding coins and tessera from Tarsus and all the neigboring Roman Provincial towns, the large and the small, trying to make a series of all the emperors and empresses, all the festivals and games, and all the gods and goddesses and personifications.[/QUOTE]
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